All 3 Uses of
precipitate
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- To those who create themselves wits at the cost of feminine delicacy (a habit of mind which he never did hold with) to them he would concede neither to bear the name nor to herit the tradition of a proper breeding: while for such that, having lost all forbearance, can lose no more, there remained the sharp antidote of experience to cause their insolency to beat a precipitate and inglorious retreat.†
Chpt 14 *
- THE YEWS: (Their silverfoil of leaves precipitating, their skinny arms aging and swaying) Deciduously!†
Chpt 15 *
- A star precipitated with great apparent velocity across the firmament from Vega in the Lyre above the zenith beyond the stargroup of the Tress of Berenice towards the zodiacal sign of Leo.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(precipitate as in: it precipitated a revolution) make something happen or to fall or move -- typically suddenly and often of something undesired
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(precipitate as in: a precipitate decision) acting with great haste -- often without adequate thought